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"Strickland (Stirkland) gave name to the family of Strickland, which continued here for many generations, and afterwards removed to Sizergh. Thrimby is a small village in this parish, consisting only of about six families."
[Nicolson and Burn: The history and antiquities of the counties of Westmorland and Cumberland. 1777.]
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Thrimby is a parish in the West Ward of the county.
Until 1741 it was in the parish of Morland. It includes Little Strickland.
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| St Mary, Thrimby, Church of England |
Returns survive for the 'census' of 1787 and are held at the Kendal Record Office of Cumbria Archives Service. The Record Office reference is WQ/SP/C. They are transcribed in Vital Statistics published by Curwen Archives Trust 1992. ISBN 1897590008.
Census returns are available from the usual sources for 1841-1911.
Transcript and index for 1851 has been published by the Cumbria Family History Society and also in 'North Westmorland - An Index to the 1851 Census' compiled by David Lowis and Barbara Slack.
| St Mary, Thrimby, Church of England |
| St Mary chapel Not in Pevsner. Photograph(s) and description on VisitCumbria. Access and contact details on Church of England site. More details and maps in Genuki Westmorland Church Database |
Parish Registers and Bishop's Transcripts are held by Cumbria Archives : originals at Kendal RO and microfilm copies at Carlisle RO.
| Baptism registers | 1813-1905 |
| Marriage registers | 1872-1983 |
| Banns registers | - |
| Burial registers | 1814-1986 |
| Bishops transcripts | 1813-1870 |
See the CASCAT online calogue for WPR105 for information on these and other parish records..
For searching on LDS familysearch.org see IGI batch numbers (compiled by Jake Prescott)
or use the batch number search site (by Hugh Wallis).
The University of Leicester History, Directory & Gazetteer of Cumberland & Westmorland, 1829
Cumbria County History Trust has published a "Jubilee Digest" for the township of Thrimby
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Thrimby to another place.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference NY550196 (Lat/Lon: 54.569786, -2.69826), Thrimby which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
Thrimby is in the diocese of Carlisle and wills will be in Carlisle Record Office.
Hearth Tax records for 1674 Thrimby (Morland) transcribed on Edenlinks.
Window Tax records for 1777 Thrimby transcribed on Edenlinks.